Quotes About Empowerment

The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all.

The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all. -Nora Halliday

You are a magnificent and powerful person," I said.

The day I stood in front of the mirror and saw and loved my face and my hair for the first time in my life I was alone--completely utterly alone. We are always alone when we find the truth. The fact that we are alone makes the taste of affirmation no less sweet.

African-American history is so much more than the Middle Passage, assassinated prophets, a catalog of the dead and dying, the imprisoned and the failing among us. The human spirit is never summed up or adequately captured by a litany only of its weakness, confusion, and fear.

any right is always coupled with a responsibility

I wanted to be an educated, liberated woman. And if the pursuit of knowledge meant getting cancer, so be it.

One isn't born courageous, one becomes it.

To educate myself, I had to understand everything. Starting with myself, me, Marji, the woman.

One must educate oneself

Guns may shoot and knives may carve, but we won't wear your silly scarves!

Where was my mother to stroke my hair? Where was my grandmother to tell me that lovers, I would have them by the dozen? Where was my father to punish this boy who dared hurt his daughter? Where?

And why is it the women who have to be virgins? Why suffer torment to satisfy an asshole? Because the man who demands virginity from a women is nothing but an asshole! Why don't we behave as Westerners do!? For them, since the problem of sex is resolved, they can move on to other things! This is the reason they progress!!!

But God doesn't call the qualified; God qualifies the called.

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

the truth of Ho's teachings, that the party and the army were not enough. Real victory could come only from the people.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. —JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming. . . . These people are waiting for a bus on a street where no busses pass. . . . They can end up waiting forever. And that is what most people do. BRIAN TRACY   

We need more Spirit-empowered Christians who take seriously their call to witness to God's work in this world, and to do so in unity with other Christians, even if they don't agree on some secondary matters.

and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything

But I don't take any notice because I don't listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have a Swiss Army knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self-defense and I won't go to prison

She has grown up as a woman. She has been taught to flatter, to please, to depend, to give way, to make herself small and quiet. She has been told to be soft so that men will always have a means by which they can hurt and control her, that ring through the nose which men call femininity. But she has silently refused to accept these lessons.

But I don't take any notice because I don't listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self-defense and I won't go to prison.

One voice can change a room. And if it can change a room, it can change a city. And if it can change a city, it can change a state. And if it can change a state, it can change a nation. And if it can change a nation, it can change the world.